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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.37.5–I.49.37.6
Ancient Greek
p. 118637.5
Οἱ δ᾽ ἀσφαλέστερον τούτων διαταττόμενοι καὶ προόδους πρώτας καὶ δευτέρας καὶ τρίτας οὐσιῶν τῆς ψυχῆς διισχυριζόμενοι προχωρεῖν εἰς τὸ πρόσσω, οἵους ἄν τις θείη τοὺς καινῶς μὲν ἀπταίστως δὲ ἀντιλαμβανομένους τῶν λόγων, τὰ μὲν τῶν ὅλων ψυχῶν καὶ θείων καὶ ἀΰλων ἐνεργήματα ἐροῦσιν οὗτοι πάντως δήπου καὶ εἰς οὐσίαν ἀποτελευτᾶν· τὰ δὲ τῶν μεριστῶν ⟨καὶ⟩ κρατουμένων ἐν ἑνὶ εἴδει καὶ διαιρουμένων περὶ τοῖς σώμασιν οὐδαμῶς συγχωρήσουσιν εὐθὺς εἶναι ταῦθ᾽ ἅπερ ἐνεργοῦσι.
37.6
Κατὰ δὴ τὴν αὐτὴν μέθοδον προΐτω καὶ ἡ συγγενὴς πρὸς ταύτην διαίρεσις. Λέγω δὴ προσπεφυκέναι μὲν ταῖς δυνάμεσι τὰ ἔργα ἐκείνων τῶν ψυχῶν τῶν αὐτοτελῶν καὶ μονοειδῶν καὶ χωριστῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ὕλης, ὡς ἂν φαίη ἡ νεωστὶ παρευρεθεῖσα ἥδε αἵρεσις, ἐοικέναι δὲ ταῖς τῶν καρπῶν ἀπογεννήσεσιν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀτελεστέρων καὶ περὶ γῆν ἀπομεριζομένων.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 118737.5 · Successive processions of substance
Others order matters more securely than these thinkers and maintain that first, second, and third processions of the substances of soul advance successively. Among them one might place those who grasp these accounts in a new yet unfailing way. They will certainly say that the operations of universal, divine, and immaterial souls reach their completion also in substance. But for particular souls, ⟨and⟩ those confined within a single form and divided in association with bodies, they will by no means concede that these are immediately what they do.1459
37.6 · Inherent works and the bearing of fruit
Let the related distinction proceed by the same method. I mean that, as this newly devised position would say, the works of souls that are complete in themselves, uniform, and separate from matter are naturally attached to their powers. In the case of less complete souls, divided about the earth, their works resemble the production of fruits.1460
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